Analysis of oldest-old mortality: lifetables revisited

DOI10.1214/aos/1030563980zbMath0930.62040OpenAlexW2052481156MaRDI QIDQ1807073

William B. Capra, Jane-Ling Wang, Hans-Georg Müller

Publication date: 9 November 1999

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1030563980

zbMATH Keywords

smoothinglocal polynomial fittingtransformationhazard functionagingbiodemographydiscretization biashazard surfacenematodessamples of lifetables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Density estimation (62G07) Applications of statistics to actuarial sciences and financial mathematics (62P05) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Reliability and life testing (62N05)

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